I often see code that still uses the WinApi::GetTickCount method to measure an interval of time. And though there is nothing wrong with it, I wanted to show an alternative method : the StopWatch already known in .Net for quite some time. The sample below show the usage of the stopwatch while I was testing something […] Read More...Posted in .NETDynamics Ax.

Hi to all of you! It has been a while since I have posted some useful content here. Mainly to the fact that I was focussing on getting the content in the book. And now we can finally say that it is finished, reviewed and approved! So as we speak the presses are rolling to […] Read More...Posted in Dynamics Ax.

Hi everyone, This is actually more a question that a post Last week, I have downloaded the R2 virtual machine and fired it up to venture in the new capabilities of Dynamics AX 2012 R2. (And yes, shamefully I missed the Technical conference !) Once the thing booted up, I could immediately see that the […] Read More...Posted in Dynamics Ax.

Today I can finally present you my first book that is published : Microsoft Dynamics AX 2012 Services! As you might have guessed by the title of the book, it covers everything there is to know about services within Dynamics AX 2012. This includes topics like the service architecture, WCF, document services, custom services , […] Read More...Posted in Dynamics Ax.

Now let’s get into to business quick and start off with a question : “How often did you want to reproduce / debug a certain process without actually knowing where the source of the problem may reside?” Well the answer to that question for most of us will be : “Quite a lot” and then […] Read More...Posted in Dynamics Ax.

Some of you will be familiar enough with Ax 2009 and therefore know how to create multiple threads when running batch jobs. For those of you who aren’t : no worries! Since most of it will be done in the same way as before, you will be up to speed in no time. The main […] Read More...Posted in Dynamics Ax.

Since the arrival of Dynamics Ax 2012, the traditional RunBaseBatch framework is getting obsolete. This has been replaced by the SysOperationFramework. This framework brings a few nice features that were missing in the RunBaseBatch framework. One them is the MVC pattern to separate concerns. The basics I would like to start with a few links […] Read More...Posted in Dynamics Ax.

The windows event viewer can be a nice tool to check for messages dispatched by the system. You can save the logs in there, reopen them, different kinds of information is available so you can actually trace lots of things in there. But wouldn’t it be nice to also be able to log the messages […] Read More...Posted in .NETDynamics Ax.

Today I was reading a very interesting post about possible extensions to the editor in AX 2012 and I would very much like to share it. Basically it explains that the editor is a hosted visual studio editor (that was already clear) and by knowing this, it is also possible to use the extensions that […] Read More...Posted in .NETDynamics Ax.